Ten minutes since the answer arrived from Tokyo.

Here it is: "Do what you like and think necessary, but please alter all names, et cetera, as propose returning via America, and fear interviewers.

Japan jolly place." Then follows some private matter which I need not insert.
Oliver is always extravagant where cablegrams are concerned.
I suppose that before entering on this narration, for the reader's benefit I had better give some short description of myself.
My name is Richard Adams, and I am the son of a Cumberland yeoman who married a Welshwoman.

Therefore I have Celtic blood in my veins, which perhaps accounts for my love of roving and other things.

I am now an old man, near the end of my course, I suppose; at any rate, I was sixty-five last birthday.